Kids today are offered many invitations to be shallow. Everywhere they are bombarded with proclamations that reality is self-defined, appetites are sacred, and that self-control is self-defacement. If you examine […]
Nemo
The Blizzard came and transformed the city. Before the snowploughs and the footprints and the salt and the dirt could arrive, I got up early to capture it. I stepped […]
The Pleasing Meanness of Giants
O! it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Paul Bunyan, Roald Dahl’s BFG, and the […]
What a Wonder-full World — Part Two
“Are there real fairies in the world?” I looked up from the mushrooms I was chopping to study my five-year-old daughter’s face. The cock of her head and squint of […]
Breaking a Dark Enchantment
“Wonder is involuntary praise.” Edward Young said that and I’m glad he did. What are we doing to facilitate wonder in our families? C.S. Lewis said we need an enchantment to […]
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